Articles by Anne Linehan

Mayor Parker signed an executive order banning smoking in city parks (KPRC-2): The smoking ban applies to lighted cigars, cigarettes, pipes or any other device used for the burning of tobacco or other plant material.

There will be a candlelight vigil Tuesday night for the two precious children who were killed yesterday evening in Spring. The vigil will begin at 8:30 at the Church at Creek’s End, 20010 Kuykendahl, south

After years of academic and financial failure, the state’s Education Commissioner is revoking North Forest ISD’s accreditation and ordering it to shut down after the 2011-12 school year. So what will happen to the district’s

As Texas Watchdog continues to unearth devastating details of HISD trustees’ questionable judgment, one wonders how the old Jason Spencer would have reacted to these revelations? Okay, we don’t have to wonder too hard. But

METRO is breaking out the scratch-off tickets this weekend to celebrate adding Saturday service to a bus route. Yes, I know you really want to know if there’ll be mariachi bands, but, alas, the METRO

So notes the Chron’s Ericka Mellon. The comments to her blog post are fascinating — sounds like fun times for Team HISD! RELATED: Fallout from Principal Exodus Continues (Houstonisdwatch.com)

The Examiner’s Charlotte Aguilar reported last week that the head of HISD’s Apollo 20 program is exiting the district one year after being recruited by Superintendent Terry Grier: Jeremy Beard, the school improvement officer in

Write On METRO: Long Commutes Lead to Divorce, Neck Pain, Insomnia The solution, Mary Sit says, is to let METRO do the driving. However, we would encourage potential riders to proceed with caution.

Replacing Tom Lambert who, inexplicably, was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer, is HPD Captain Victor Rodriguez: A former captain in the Houston Police Department became METRO’s new police chief today, ending a year-long search. Victor

Recall back in 2006 METRO Police Chief Tom Lambert finally found some state-of-the-art security for METRO’s Park and Pillages. Described as a “quantum leap forward,” specifics were as follows: At the heart of the new